When will the pain of 1997 go away?

[BornInDroopSt'54]

He was out there, we weren't. Not sure calling him gutless gets us anywhere.

Gutless is fair enough, not just for kicking at Foster but also for not being able to face up years later to what he had done and the implications for Foster and Footscray.

[SonofScray]

Gutless is fair enough, not just for kicking at Foster but also for not being able to face up years later to what he had done and the implications for Foster and Footscray.

Agree. Kicked out at him. One of the lowest acts on the field IMO, no excuses.

[Twodogs]

Gutless is fair enough, not just for kicking at Foster but also for not being able to face up years later to what he had done and the implications for Foster and Footscray.

Gutless is technically incorrect. It was a low dog's act.

[Twodogs]

I think you're referring to the QF against Geelong that year, not the PF. We got off to a flyer in the QF thanks the Justin Charles killing it in the ruck and the Snozz Del Re kicking a bag - might have gotten 5-6 goals up in the 2nd qtr from memory. Then G Ablett Snr kicked an unbelievable running left foot goal on the boundary from 60m out and Geelong went gangbusters for the rest of the game. We were never in the PF at any stage a couple of weeks later.

The turning point in that game came just before halftime. Justin Charles was handing John Barne's arse to him on a plate at ruck contests and around the ground. Barnes went off the ground with a soft tissue injury and in desperation Geelong threw Barry Stoneham into the ruck. Stoneham got on top of Charles and all of a sudden Ablett started to get the ball kicked to him and that was all she wrote.

[bornadog]

The turning point in that game came just before halftime. Justin Charles was handing John Barne's arse to him on a plate at ruck contests and around the ground. Barnes went off the ground with a soft tissue injury and in desperation Geelong threw Barry Stoneham into the ruck. Stoneham got on top of Charles and all of a sudden Ablett started to get the ball kicked to him and that was all she wrote.

As I said, put Foster and Wynd into the 1992 finals campaign and I bet it would have been a different story.

[Remi Moses]

Jarman was instrumental in that. So pretty much right at the end we gave in.

Modra getting injured cost us.
We had him covered and he wasn't the player he was a few years earlier.
Forced them to play Jarman at full forward.
Can we get a thread closed due to mental trauma?

[Eastdog]

Modra getting injured cost us.
We had him covered and he wasn't the player he was a few years earlier.
Forced them to play Jarman at full forward.
Can we get a thread closed due to mental trauma?

We certainly need our fortunes to change when we make another PF win it and make that GF so we can all experience that GF week. It would be great going into the city for the GF parade with us being a competing team in the GF.

[SonofScray]

I feel like we need to do a Bradbury in a way. Get in a winning position (again) but just have our opponents make a mess of it.

That'd lead to howls of us not deserving a GF berth etc which would be frustrating, but I'd take it.

[The Coon Dog]

Well Adelaide had about 46 players on the field, and we had maybe 12 or something like that. With four of them being injured and Rohan Smith playing CHB on Robran.

At least that's how it seemed.

Seriously, we got beaten in every aspect of the game across the entire field. There was nothing more to it, aside from some injury concerns leading in.

That was 1998, another horror story of a different kind.

[The Coon Dog]

I don't know why I'm doing this, maybe still suffering post traumatic stress disorder?

I got to 53 seconds, that's all. Good luck if anyone can go the journey.

[bornadog]

I don't know why I'm doing this, maybe still suffering post traumatic stress disorder?

I got to 53 seconds, that's all. Good luck if anyone can go the journey.

We have to admit it, at the end of the day, we weren't good enough. Adelaide played better.

[AndrewP6]

We have to admit it, at the end of the day, we weren't good enough. Adelaide played better.

Spot on. All those behinds too, probably should've been vastly different score line.

[Twodogs]

Modra getting injured cost us.
We had him covered and he wasn't the player he was a few years earlier.
Forced them to play Jarman at full forward.
Can we get a thread closed due to mental trauma?

I heard Modra's knee snap from where I was sitting. It was an awful sound.

[LostDoggy]

No, I wish I could say different but I can't seem to let it go. I don't think about it all the time, but funnily enough, someone at the weekend teased me about it My god, the pain still ripped at my heart like it was yesterday. It's just lucky there wasn't a traffic jam on the bridge that night, or I think I would have jumped out of the car and leapt off. I remember waking up the next morning with the Crows song blasting in my mind - oh, it makes me feel sick now just thinking about it.

The only remedy will be a premiership I reckon

[SonofScray]

Watched that youtube clip, actually made me physically ill. Thanks for posting.